Old money last names

Means “ash tree” + “enclosed field”

Means “east meadow” or “east clearing”

Means likely “hawk”, from Occitan

Means the personal name Ealdgȳþ + “woodland clearing”

Means “noble guard” or “elf guard”

Means “beautiful fort”

Means “birch” + “meadow”

Means “good” + “part, share”

Means from Ó Proinntigh: “descendant of Proinnteach (‘Generous’)”

Means possibly “fort at the gap”

Means “Cāfna’s enclosure”

Means from curtus, “short”

Means believed to be “Cofa’s tree”

Means “enclosure” + “farmstead”

Means “from Évreux”, a city in Normandy

Means “beautiful tresses”: a nickname for long fair hair

Means “son of the king”

Means “son of William”

Means the personal name Hucc + “woodland clearing”

Means “north cottage”

Means “land’s end”

Means from Latin Quintus, “fifth-born”

Means from the German place name Rockenfeld

Means from Silvanus, or “hall” + “friend”

Means “the people living at Somerton”

Means “stone” + “valley”

Means “road” + “ford”

Means “farmstead” + “stone”

Means “from De Bilt”, a town in the Netherlands

Means from the German town Walldorf

Means “the woodland by the springs”

Means “friend’s village”

Means “stick, rod” + “woodland clearing”

Means “ash tree” + “farm, town”

Means “ford by the ash trees”

Means “ash tree” + “enclosure”

Means the personal name Æþelhere + “settlement”

Means “bean” + “enclosed field”

Means the personal name Beorn + “belonging to” + “settlement”

Means “son of Talmai”

Means “beautiful field”

Means “beautiful mountain”

Means “beautiful mountain”

Means “blessed”

Means “cattle enclosure”

Means the personal name Bucca + “belonging to” + “home”

Means “fort” + the personal name Michael

Means a personal name + “belonging to” + “settlement”

Means the name Chad + Old Norse vík

Means “wood” + “home”

Means “church” + “hill”

Means “coal” + “settlement”

Means “crooked spring”

Means “deer” + “settlement”

Means “from Lannoy”, from “the alderwood”

Means “from Évreux”, a city in Normandy

Means “east settlement”

Means the name Ella, or “eel” + “belonging to” + “settlement”

Means “fair bank”

Means “man of peace”

Means a granger, a farm bailiff

Means probably “fresh river”

Means “the king’s wood or clearing”

Means “the king’s town or manor”

Means “the little beech tree”

Means “translator, interpreter”

Means “inhabitant of Lennox”

Means “enclosure” + “wood”

Means “little wolf”

Means the river Hlūde + “hill, mound”

Means “dead pond”

Means “oak valley”

Means “head, summit” + “barley” + “village”

Means “the settlement beside Pendle”

Means from Perceval, a knight of Arthurian romance

Means “roe deer” + “woodland clearing”

Means “settlement by the boundary stream”

Means “Hrofi’s fortified camp”

Means “red shield”

Means from the given name Rose

Means “stronghold”, from an older Celtic name

Means “sea, lake” + “settlement”

Means likely “dweller of the willow place”

Means “log, stump” or “dwelling” + “settlement”

Means “bandit”

Means a thatcher

Means “of the hill”

Means “place of alder trees”

Means “foreigner, Briton” + “cottage”

Means “dwelling by the weir”

Means “west cottage”

Means partly “white lock (of hair)”

Means “Venta of the Belgae” + “camp”

Means “Wigmund’s home”

Means “riverbank with a windlass”

Means “Wine’s mound”

Means the personal name Weorþ + “belonging to” + “settlement”

Means someone employed by an abbot

Means “alder” + “farmstead”

Means “bent-grass” + “meadow”

Means “broad ford”

Means “town-dweller”

Means “crooked nose”

Means “crooked mouth”

Means “fort” + a Celtic personal name

Means from the word “castle”: someone who lived or worked in one

Means “merchant, trader”

Means “the ford by the cliff”

Means “charcoal burner”

Means “crow” + “ford”

Means “king” or “rabbit” + “home, estate”

Means “valley” + “settlement”

Means named after the River Dane + “port”

Means from Dutch “de Witt”

Means “of Orsay”, a town in France

Means a draper, a cloth merchant

Means “fort” + “hill-crest, summit”

Means “son of Emery”

Means from Everaert

Means “son of Gerald”

Means “son of the devotee of Saint Patrick”

Means originally a name for a Fleming

Means “arrow-maker”

Means “descendants of Gallchobair”

Means “among the foreign Gaels”

Means “son of Garrett”

Means “pledge” + “bright, famous”

Means “large”

Means “heath” + “woodland clearing”

Means “flat-topped hill”

Means “Hæsta’s people”

Means “son of Hendrick”

Means “islet”

Means “high guard”

Means the god Ingwaz + “raven”

Means a mounted soldier, from Old English “youth; servant”

Means the River Lune + “town”, after its Roman fort

Means “long woodland clearing”

Means usually “son of Matthew”

Means “Mack’s well or spring”

Means “middle settlement”

Means “foot of a hill”

Means “Gomeric’s hill”

Means possibly “great chief” or “sea chief”

Means from the word “noble”

Means “god” + “bear”

Means “priests’ settlement”

Means someone who lived near woodland clearings

Means a nickname for someone with red hair

Means “cattle” + “ford”

Means “one who saws”

Means from Saint-Maur, a place in Normandy

Means from Saint Clare, to whom the clan’s churches were dedicated

Means a steward or butler

Means “landing place” + “ford”

Means “south land”

Means “thorn” + “settlement”

Means “town’s end”: someone at the edge of a village

Means “marsh, bog”

Means “little”

Means “small”

Means “foreign”: a byname for a Welshman or Breton

Means “west brook”

Means “west settlement”

Means “white acre”

Means “white island”

Means “war” + “hard, brave”

Means from Eborācum, ultimately “yew”

Means perhaps “the hill associated with Clare”

Means someone with Cornish ancestry

Means “farmstead” + the personal name Elyan